The Mike McEwen foursome from Winnipeg sits atop the world as the hottest team in competitive curling. Now they’re getting set to take on Team Europe at the 2015 World Financial Group Continental Cup, presented by SecurTek Monitoring Solutions. “Better let the Europeans know we’re coming to get them,” said McEwen, with a good-natured laugh. […]

The curling world can rest easy: Nolan Thiessen promises he will never write the roaring game’s version of Ball Four. Pitcher Jim Bouton’s tell-all set off a firestorm when it came out in 1970 with stories from the private world of Major League Baseball. He became a pariah for revealing inside secrets and the book […]

Every year, a host of elite championships thrill passionate curling fans across Canada and around the world. But, in the eyes of the top competitors, there is one that clearly stands out as the toughest of all.

Earle Morris never turned the TV on before leaving for the curling club. He was sitting around having lunch at the Glencoe following a curling clinic, unawares, when, at about 11:30, Team Canada lead Nolan Thiessen asked him: “Did you hear what happened in Ottawa?”

Being your regular workaday dad, Earle Morris hasn’t been spared the customary three stages of child rearing: Blind idolatry. Rebellious dismissal. Growing appreciation. “It’s the old business of being a parent,” muses the expansively-decorated Canadian curling coach, away from the ice surfaces, up in the Glencoe Club dining room during a Team Canada media availability Wednesday. “Up until they’re, oh, maybe 13 years old you’re the smartest guy in the whole world, right?

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